Sentence examples for shift in scientists from inspiring English sources

Last week Alok reported the results from the international Encode project – "the most significant shift in scientists' understanding of the way our DNA operates since the sequencing of the human genome in 2000".

In genetics, the results of a £180m decade-long study to create an encyclopedia of DNA elements, known as Encode, were published to wild acclaim in parts of the science media with this newspaper describing it as "the most significant shift in scientists' understanding of the way our DNA operates since the sequencing of the human genome".

Interdisciplinary scientific assessments for environmental governance, like the IPCC, MA or UNEP assessments, prompt a general shift in scientists' perspective from local to global and disciplinary to interdisciplinary, broaden their perspectives and help them to develop deeper and richer analyzes of complex systems (Norgaard, 2008b).

"I think it will mark a paradigm shift" in how scientists understand stem cell differentiation, he adds.

Accompanying this revolution has been a fundamental shift in how scientists classify organisms, and this in turn has rendered terms such as mammal-like reptile obsolete.

Rising temperatures could lead to drastic shifts in weather, scientists at the meeting said.

Over the past decade or so, there has been a shift — inevitably labelled a "paradigm shift" — in the way scientists regard the Earth's climate.

As nations from Britain to Bangladesh come up with survival strategies, the Dutch approach underscores a shift in thinking among scientists, planners and politicians, who only a few years ago viewed talk of adapting to climate change as akin to environmental surrender.

There appears to have been a shift in clinicians' and scientists' attitudes to AF in recent years and PAF is no longer seen as a benign entity.

One reason for the shift in attitudes, some political scientists contend, is a rising number of gays acknowledging their sexual preference openly in various walks of life, from workers on factory floors to Hollywood stars.

This shift in attitude toward foreign scientists reflects not only the emergence of a more outward-looking German society since the reunification in 1990, but also Germany's desire to raise its scientific profile and modernize the science system.